Motorhead interviews

[Legion]

Another Lemmy interview.

Daniel Robert Epstein: What's going on?

Lemmy: I only got up about an hour ago.

DRE: Were you up late last night, what we're you doing?

Lemmy: Screwing.

DRE: Were you drinking?

Lemmy: Yeah, jack and coke.

DRE: Is that what you've always drank?

Lemmy: No, I used to drink vodka and orange for years, but switched to jack and coke about ten years ago.

DRE: Why?

Lemmy: I don't know, change is as good as the rest.

DRE: You going to drink something else in another ten years?

Lemmy: I don't know. I’ll be drinking formaldehyde by then.

DRE: So the first Motörhead approved box set is coming out, what's that mean?

Lemmy: Well, that means that they let me change a couple of tracks on it. I did an intro for it. I was very involved in this one and wasn't before.

DRE: Do you think that non-Motörhead fans will be into this?

Lemmy: Well, I don't know. That’s up to the individual, isn't it.

DRE: I think that a lot of people are surprised that you've been able to stick around this long.

Lemmy: Yeah, right. Everyone was wrong and I was right.

DRE: You were telling them that you'd be around forever?

Lemmy: Yeah, I did, but no one believed me, not even the rest of the band.

DRE: Have you ever slept with a Goth girl?

Lemmy: Oh, several.

DRE: Are they different from anyone else?

Lemmy: No, they're just the same with their clothes off.

DRE: No blood sucking or anything?

Lemmy: Not so far, no. I’m sure there'll come a day.

DRE: What's your favorite sexual position?

Lemmy: Facing the television [laughs]. I don't know. It’s just whatever occurs to you at the time. It’s improvisational, really.

DRE: Arnold Schwarzenegger just got elected governor and it came out that he'd been in some orgies, and I figured if he'd had some orgies, you'd been in a few yourself, right?

Lemmy: Well, it wasn't a big thing until now, was it? No one gave a shit until now. It just politicians talking shit as usual.

DRE: have you done some orgies yourself?

Lemmy: No, just one on one. I don't do sloppy seconds. Sloppy firsts maybe? I don't know.

DRE: I read that some journalist wrote that Motörhead was the grimy steal worker of the tour with Dio and Iron Maiden, does that sound right?

Lemmy: Just about, yeah. I have a lot of respect for the people who've worked hard.

DRE: I think that you're bigger than Dio ever was though?

Lemmy: He sold more albums though, that's what it goes on.

DRE: What was it like being on tour with those guys?

Lemmy: I’ve known those guys for years, we're old friends.

DRE: What was your first crush?

Lemmy: It was probably a horse. I was big on horses when I was a kid. They’re not too bad either, but you have to be nice to them if you want to kiss them.

DRE: I can't see you up there on a horse.

Lemmy: You can't? You’d be surprised.

DRE: What was the first thing you ever crushed with your boot?

Lemmy: Christ, I don’t know. What kind of question is that? Probably a cigarette. I don't know, some lifeless, poor insect.

DRE: I read that you made a reporter get into a bathtub with you one time, what do you take into the bathtub with you now?

Lemmy: The bath? I don't have a bath now, I have a shower. I’m in America now, aren't I. you don't have bathtubs in America, you have showers.

DRE: The BBC sessions on Stone Death. Was that the first time you'd heard those in a while?

Lemmy: Yeah.

DRE: Did it make you think of old times?

Lemmy: Yeah, that's the thing about the past; it just brings back all those memories.

DRE: How different did the music sound to you?

Lemmy: Oh, well, it's completely different. I mean, how does your writing look from then until now?

DRE: Apparently, you and Wendy O. Williams weren't that big fans of one another, is that true?

Lemmy: No, we were very big fans of each other. She toured with us three times. Oh yeah, we had a thing going for a while. Who wrote that? They probably didn't know either of us.

DRE: I noticed that you've been in a few Troma movies, I know that they don't pay much money, right?

Lemmy: No, they don't pay much, that's true, but you're not sort of doing that for the money. You’re doing it for the laughs.

DRE: What are your favorite Troma movies?

Lemmy: Probably the ones that I’m in.

DRE: What music have you been listening to lately?

Lemmy: Evanescence, they're excellent. That’s the best album that I’ve heard in a long time. Let’s see, there's a band from Toronto that's called Cheerleader who are good. They’re just starting up, but apart from that, not really.

DRE: What do you think of the stuff that's considered speed metal these days?

Lemmy: Oh, I don't care. It’s mostly not very good. It’s like, you can only do so much with that format, really.

DRE: What made you guys first come together back in '75?

Lemmy: Well, I needed to get something going before I faded from the memory of the public. I got fired from, Hawkwind, the band I was in. but the second one was great.

DRE: What happened with Hawkwind?

Lemmy: They fired me. They basically thought that I was trying to be a primrose, a bass player, and I kept hogging the limelight. On top of that, I sang the only hit that they'd ever had and I’d only been in the band for ten months which really pissed them off.

DRE: I read that the Rocking Vicars was the first band to play behind the iron curtain, is that right?

Lemmy: Yeah, yeah, I think that England got the Red Army Youth Orchestra and they got us.

DRE: What was that like?

Lemmy: That was a different time then. People were different. It was like unlimited whoopee all the time, then. Being twenty years older didn't hurt.

DRE: Are you turning sixty soon?

Lemmy: In three years.

DRE: Do you have plans for your sixtieth?

Lemmy: Yeah, I’m going on holiday alone somewhere. I hate fucking birthdays. It’s the day of the year that is the least in your control and the least that you enjoy. You’ve got to do things other people expect you to do, birthday shit. So, I’m not very keen on birthdays and my birthday is on Christmas Eve and so, it's like crap all of the time.

DRE: Was the last good birthday gift you got?

Lemmy: The last good gift was a guitar from Phil Campbell.

DRE: Do you think that you'd be good having your own reality show like Ozzy?

Lemmy: No, it'd be fisticuffs after the first few days with a camera crew stuck up my ass all the time.

DRE: I read that you said, 'if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die'

Lemmy: I stole that quote.

DRE: Who’s was it?

Lemmy: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

DRE: Do you think you'd piss on the lawn next door?

Lemmy: No. I told you, I stole the fucking line. It just sounded mean.

DRE: You still getting into fights at all?

Lemmy: No. there was this guy going after this girl with a pistol and I took it off of him. That’s the only thing I did and that was about two years ago.

DRE: What's your favorite porn?

Lemmy: Movies, I suppose.

DRE: You like two girls together?

Lemmy: Oh, no. I might be the only guy in the western hemisphere, but that doesn't do anything for me. I like there to be guys and then, pretend that it's me.

DRE: What was it like performing that black flag song for the album?

Lemmy: It was fun, I like Henry. We get along well.

DRE: What's next for you?

Lemmy: We're going to England in about a week for a month and then, we come back for a couple of weeks and then, on to Germany and Spain.

DRE: what country are you most excited to get back to?

Lemmy: I like Germany. They really stuck by us when we couldn't get a gig anywhere else. We’d tour Germany and survive. They’re a good rock and roll crowd.

DRE: What do you do to keep your sound fresh?

Lemmy: Nothing, we are fresh. We’re not pretending. We’re not fooling you. This is what you see is what you get. It’s always been like that.

DRE: What song did you record with The Damned?

Lemmy: I did 'neat, neat, neat', one of their songs. I’m going to bring it out. I don't know when, when I finish it because I have to do it in between Motörhead stuff.

DRE: Is this line up with Motörhead the one that's going to be sticking around?

Lemmy: It's lasted eleven years, twelve years now.

DRE: What do you watch on TV?

Lemmy: I watch the History Channel mostly. The History Channel and Discovery Channel, all the good ones. Law and Order.

DRE: You seem strangely low key for being Lemmy?

Lemmy: I am low key when I’m at home. You can't go around like that all the fucking time.

DRE: What gets your riled when you're out, music, drinking, both?

Lemmy: I’m not very rowdy when I go out. I don't go swaggering into a place when you're alone. You need backup.

DRE: Do you have kids?

Lemmy: two.

DRE: how old?

Lemmy: My youngest one is thirty six. He’s a musician. He’s out here in LA doing sessions.

DRE: Is he good?

Lemmy: he's excellent. He’s better than me.

DRE: Are you going to work together in the future?

Lemmy: Possibly, yeah. I’m going to try and get him on the album.

;D

[lutefisk]

Here's a fun little interview Lemmy and Phil did in Lem's dressing room back in October. I dug it up awhile back - I believe it's 2 of the Motorheadache guys that did the interviewing. Quite a wide range of topics are covered... everything from boots to blowjobs and a couple things in between!

Crap! My post errored out because it's more than 10,000 characters! Anyway, here's the link: myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pmilligan/INTERVIEWS%20Folder/Lemmy%20and%20Phil%20C%20of%20Motorhead.htm

[DUNK]

HEY LUTE, THUMBS UP NICE ONE GIRL,GREAT INTERVIEW. I WAS AT THE TIME OF THAT INTERVIEW OUT BACK OF ROCK CITY GETTING PISSED AND PISSED OFF WAITING FOR LEMMY TO COME OUT(In Grey suit,see other post)I REMEMBER THE GUYS OUTA MOTORHEADACHE GOING IN AND COMMING OUT SOME TIME LATER. JUST AFTER THEM COMMING OUT I THOUGHT FUCK IT AND WENT AN GOT ME SOME CHIPS AN A DONNA KEBAB AND A DRINKY OR TWO.I WAS REWARDED FOR MY PATIENCE TWO DAYS LATER UP IN GLASGOW.

[Desperado]

Yeah, nice interview - especially the part about the germans...he he ;D

[Legion]

A very good one, yep. Style.

;D

[Mtrhedbngr469]

1983 interview:artistwd.com/joyzine/music/motorhead/motorhead.php

[snaggletooth]

Interview from today's Guardian for your entertainment copied below. Typical Lemmy-with-JD-in-a-bar colour portrait in the print edition. Enjoy!

"I'm worried I won't recognise Lemmy, since, for reasons he is not himself coy about, he is often photographed in the middle distance, in low lighting, or under a hat. But there he is, unmistakable, stalking through the pearly LA light in black jeans, black boots, black shirt, black chest hair and a black cowboy hat, moving with the arachnoid gait of a pantomime child-catcher. We are to meet at his local, the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Sunset Boulevard, where Marilyn Monroe met Joe DiMaggio and where the hoarding on the wall advertises a band called Sick Sex, featuring a big-chested woman with the word "Slayer" written across her torso in black marker pen.

"They're shut?" says Lemmy, pulling up. "Oh, fuck." He thinks for a moment, takes down two chairs from a table on the terrace and giving the photographer a $100 bill, sends him to buy Jack Daniels and ice from an off-licence round the corner.

Lemmy, whose real name is Ian Kilmister, has lived in Los Angeles for 14 years, but still sounds like Les Dawson. "People don't know how to be outrageous any more," he growls, pointing out a corner of the terrace where, in days gone by, couples had sex in full view of the bar. He looks wistful, then cross. "If you tried that now the feminist people would go fucking nuts."

Lemmy has fronted the heavy metal band Motorhead for almost 30 years. He is 58 and weather-worn, his trademark moles the size of toadstools. For the first time in his life, he is thinking of getting rid of them in case they turn malignant. He has incongruously fine LA teeth, which he had installed after his natural ones were pulled out as a child. They make him look a bit like Alec Guinness. "Really?" he says thoughtfully. "Fine actor."

With the rehabilitation of Ozzy Osbourne having proved to be so lucrative, Lemmy is the obvious choice for a copycat follow-up. He is much smarter than Ozzy, although he has taken just as many drugs, and pulls off that same far-out contrast of screaming about death in his art while exhibiting good citizenship skills in his life. He used to leer, "If Motorhead moved in next door to you, your lawn would die," but he hates bad manners and holds a wide range of socially responsible views on topics from classroom discipline to the failures of feminism to the links between Dick Cheney and Halliburton. If he didn't swear so much, he would be an excellent addition to the panel on Question Time.

part 2 to follow.....

[snaggletooth]

Couldn't post the whole interview as it's over 10,000 characters apparently. So here goes part 2:

"For several reasons, however, it is unlikely that Lemmy will ever become a mainstream pin-up. He lives a few blocks from the bar in a messy two-room apartment with decor that MTV might find hard to reconstitute as cuddly. "It's full of Nazi memorabilia," he says, grinning, "which horrifies Americans no end. I've had people come in there and say, 'Oh, I can't go in, I'm half-Jewish.' And I say, well, my black girlfriend doesn't have any problems with it, so I don't see why you should."

His most valuable piece is a Luftwaffe sword with a Damascus steel blade, worth $12,000. "I bought it for $6,000. I find it fascinating and colourful, and beautiful if you want. It's beautiful for the wrong reasons, but it's still beautiful. Also, it's a very good investment. It goes up every year by about 40%."

Lemmy doesn't like credulous Americans, but he dislikes the English even more. "I've always liked America because it's ... eager. Whereas the British are resentful. They still haven't gotten over losing India. The British get on my tits all the time." One of the tattoos on his arm reads: "Born to lose, live to win" and he was, he admits, a bit of a loser for the first 10 years of his life. The only English kid in a Welsh school, he was bullied and himself became a bully. "We used to have this kid - we'd tie him up and burn him. With matches. I don't know why we did it, probably because he let us and he kept coming back."

Lemmy's father was a vicar who left when his son was still a baby. Lemmy doesn't like religion much. He did, however, grow out of bullying, when he got a smack round the head from the friend of the boy he was picking on. "He was just trying to save his mate. And I thought that was a much better thing to be doing than bullying. Cured me instantly."

Lemmy is a natural aphorist. "We can't have everything 'cause where would we put it?" he says. And, "Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid." And "I think all things are alive. If they're not, how do they fuck you over so much?" When he says, "Never give anything up," he is referring to drugs more than the traditional pop substitute, dreams. Lemmy has taken a lot of drugs which he says have undoubtedly made him a better person. Jimi Hendrix gave him his first fix, in 1967, and he took copious amounts of acid until he got bored with it and, in 1975, switched exclusively to alcohol. He is never hungover, he says, because he is never entirely sober. "You ever do acid?" he asks. No, I reply. "Mmm. Perhaps you should. It gives you a new angle on things. Several new angles. I wouldn't undo having done it."

How did it make him a better person? "It made me more analytical. It made me more tolerant. And it made me realise that anything is possible. Anything. It's all random, everything is random. We like to put our patterns on things, but nature never wrote a straight line. Where are the Romans now and their fabulous buildings? Wrecks overgrown by nature." He chunters with laughter.

Have you had bad times on it too?

"I've only ever had one bad trip, which was given to me by this asshole. But you get out of it. You drink orange juice like it's going out of fashion. I saw people as animals once, I saw 'em as rats and dogs. Big rings round your eyes. Whatever you do, don't look in the mirror. All the flesh melts off your face. And you are sick forever. But I took another one the next day, you know, just to get on the horse."

In his new album, Inferno, he sings songs with titles such as Terminal Show and Killers and Suicide, which includes the lyrics, "Stay clean, be true, do everything you can do." They are perversely joyful and Lemmy has always insisted that his music is about celebration. In Motorhead's heyday, in the early 80s, they did gigs with huge pyrotechnical displays of fire and neon and on one occasion, "a fucking train that came out on wheels". I must look doubtful - my dislike of heavy metal is hard to hide - and Lemmy asks suspiciously what music I listen to.

There is a fraught pause.

"Mostly show tunes," I say.

"Beg your pardon?" says Lemmy. I repeat myself. Lemmy looks at me like I've confessed to killing his grandmother. "You should be nailed to the fucking cross," he says. There is another pause. "What, Andrew Lloyd Webber?"

I make a face. No, I say.

"Oh, she turns her nose up at Andrew Lloyd Webber." He sips at his bourbon. "Oklahoma?"

"Yes."

"Fucking hell."

There is a heavy metal hall of fame on the wall behind him. He asks me to identify some of the people on it. Alice Cooper. Steve Tyler. Ozzy. I'm doing quite well. "Who's that?" says Lemmy, pointing.

"Er. Don Johnson?"

"For fuck's sake. David Lee Roth."

Lemmy nearly got married once, to a French woman whose father was a rich doctor from Montelimar. But he had the good sense, he says, to realise he isn't the marrying kind. He thinks monogamy is an outmoded style of living. He has several girlfriends who he says he's not that fussed about but keeps going back to, "You know how it is." He also has "two and a half children". The first he had at the age of 18, to a girl of 15, and the child was adopted. His second son lives near him in Los Angeles and is a record producer; they have a good relationship. And he has what he calls "half a kid" in France. "Because me and my roadie went with this girl one night and the next night ... I was young, I was a fool. Anyway she's called it Lemmy, but it has glasses like, so I'm not sure. And it speaks only French. I met him when he was about eight. He didn't look like me. But then he didn't look like Graham either. Maybe it was a third party. Under cover of darkness."

I'm surprised she hasn't come after you for maintenance, I say. He shrugs. "If she does and it's mine, I'll pay, I don't care. At least I owe him that."

The talk turns to politics. Lemmy hasn't wanted to vote for years he says. Politicians are all "assholes" (it's one of the few words he pronounces in an American accent.) The last politician he would have voted for was Harold Wilson, "But I'd have been wrong." He despises Bush - "A fucking peanut farmer" - and of British politics says unexpectedly, "I believe in the royal family. They may be blockheads, some of them, but at least they're trained blockheads. From the day they're born they're trained." He finds Charles "intellectually vain" and believes Diana was killed in a conspiracy to stop her marrying Dodi. "She was unfaithful first," he says.

No, she wasn't, I say.

"Yes, she was," he says. "With Hewitt."

No, she wasn't, I say. Charles was unfaithful with Camilla first.

"No, he wasn't," says Lemmy.

Yes, he was.

This goes on for some time. It is tiring arguing with Lemmy. He will never admit to being wrong. "What about feminism?" he says, out of the blue. "It's made a lot of women very unhappy." He furthers a sophisticated argument about the women's movement failing to provide for working-class women. Then, less convincingly, he says, "What about 'person-hole cover'. And 'efemincipation' 'cause they won't have the word man in it."

Those are just the extremists, I say.

"Well, the trouble is they're the ones you hear most. The idiots have the loudest voices."

Nobody listens to Andrea Dworkin any more.

"Yes, they do," says Lemmy.

No, they don't.

This goes on for some time, as does the dispute following his statement, "Gay people are made and not born ... look at the rent boys on Sunset Boulevard" and "Women only go into prostitution 'cause they want to." Eventually, exhausted, we get up to do some formal pictures. Lemmy has green eyes and black hair and I tell him he looks like Scarlett O'Hara. "Good film, Gone with the Wind," he says. If his 15-year-old self could see him now, what would he think? "Probably, who's that cool old guy?" I am humming under my breath. "Oklahoma?" asks Lemmy. Then, in hushed tones, "I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song. From Cats. What's it called? Memory?" He smiles. "Sends shivers up your spine."

[Desperado]

;D

[Legion]

Fascinating, simply fascinating... just like looking at a car accident, but without the car accident. Get my drift here?

;D

[Copelasmatron]

Seems like Lemmy was having his fun with this fellow.

[Copelasmatron]

Form here motorhead.proboards9.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&n=1&thread=2260

gor said:

Main points:

-They had 29 possible titles for the album, of which they chose "Inferno". Others included "Flash" and "False Teeth For The Deaf" (haven't they considered this title for sth else too?)

-Lemmy thinks Inferno sounds like Overkill and Rock'n'Roll

-He really like the sound of the guitars, which he describes as "more upfront than other times"

-Phil's "can I go now?" at the end of the album is real, he wanted to go out with his g/f

-Q: Mikkey Dee seems more and more in the spirit of the band. Do you consider him irriplaceable for Motorhead?

A: Noone is irriplaceable!!! He's very good, but there can always be a change. Naturally, I wouldn't like to lose him but, you know, I started the band and only I can't be replaced. He's on the band for 13 yers too! When did time pass really... suprise!!! Three times more than Eddie Clark, who is considered a "classic" member. It's so stupid...

-lemmy on Manowar: A commedy band!!! And the funniest thing is that they don't know it!!!

-Phil couln't come up with a solo for Down On Me, so Vai did that one

-Lemmy's solo includes members of Skew Siskin and Dave Grohl

-Q: Cambell talks more on stage than he used to, while in older days, you where the main spokesperson of the band.

A: When Wurzel left, while we were prepairing to start searching for a new guitarist, Phil asked me to remain the only guitarist in the band. I accepted as a test. On our next gig, in Germany, he jumped next to me like a crazy dervish (I don't know if that's the word, he's talking about the turkish dancers that spin around), a bullet on stage. He hasn't stopped since, and the spot is his.

-Asked if they would ever record with an orchestra, lemmy laughs and says they like surpises...

[ShadowShaker]

LEMMY Offers Update On Solo Album

[glow=purple,2,300]In a recent interview with Metal Maniacs magazine, MOTÖRHEAD frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister offered the following update on his upcoming solo album: "I got seven tracks done already. I've got two with SKEW SISKIN [reportedly titled 'Stand Upon The Mountain' and 'Don't Matter To Me' — Ed.], which are fucking great! And I've got two with the REVEREND HORTON HEAT, some good psycho-metal-billy! I've got a track from Dave Grohl [PROBOT, FOO FIGHTERS, ex-NIRVANA] that I'm still sorting out and two tracks from THE DAMNED [including a cover of THE DAMNED's 'Neat Neat Neat']. That's with Dave and The Captain! Some good stuff. It should be out sometime next year if the lawyers can all get their heads together."

As previously reported, guitarist Jim Voxx of SKEW SISKIN, who own Berlin's Monongo studios, is producing/recording and mixing two of the songs for the project, and word is that he might mix the entire CD. A full horn section was recorded, a saxophone player, a blues piano player and a lot more. [/glow]

[Legion]

Tasty ;D

[Copelasmatron]

Most recent interview I've seen

www.unratedmagazine.com/Bios/Motorhead.cfm